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The city of Goma is trying to keep the Ebola outbreak at bay. But as night falls, Congolese rumba fills the air, and people dance close together.

The Tony Award-winning comedian was internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending snob whose evolving character delighted audiences over seven decades.

When José Aguilar, a Honduran living in the Mexican border city who runs the restaurant Honduras 504, heard a caravan of mostly Honduran migrants was coming, he knew he had to do something to help.

A well-known voice on NPR in the 1990s, Tim Green is one of a growing number of former football players with the degenerative illness Lou Gehrig's disease. And he's not hiding it.

Photographer Federica Valabrega photographed Central American women who fled domestic violence and joined a migrant caravan to seek asylum in the U.S.

While Border Patrol agents build up fences in San Diego to deter what it views as a national security threat, Central American migrants waiting in Tijuana wonder if the journey was worth the effort.

At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful?

In poignant and powerful photographs, Wil Riera draws attention to senior citizens in a country teetering on the brink. Riera died this weekend.

Last spring, NPR traveled across the country to speak with teenagers about their many different relationships with guns.

Every year, some 2.6 million birds are shot or die after being trapped in illegal nets in Lebanon. "This country is a black hole in terms of protection," says a conservationist.